IPv6 support on Virgin media
Does anyone know whether (and if so when) Virgin plan to implement IPv6 on its network?
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I really hope the DS Lite approach is scrapped and the delay is because they are going dual stack like BT and Sky with a routed /56 or similar. Clearly Virgin Media are in no rush, so I'd rather the delay be for a better IPv6 implementation.
No one wants DS Lite. Its unecessarily less friendly and complicated, makes running your own kit harder, without having modem mode you have to deal with extra network setup and you'll no longer be able to forward ports for IPv4.
i hope virgin are ready for ipv6, i found this page interesting https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2019/10/this-time-there-really-are-no-ipv4-internet-addresses-left.html
That article makes it out to be worse than it is, all it means is there are no "new" blocks of IP's to be handed out, companies still have access to all their currently assigned IP blocks, and ISP's always have more than they actually currently need so it won't actually make any difference, it just means you won't get any new IPv4 companies springing up unless they are renting addresses from another company
@shanematthews You say that, but Virgin have a mere 9.5 million IPv4 addresses. With (As of December 2012) 4.2 million home subscribers (from a footprint of 15 million homes), 3 million mobile subscribers, plus business (who may want more than 1 IP address), internal infrastructure (do a traceroute and you find a handful of public IPs before you hit "the internet", mailservers, dns etc) they're probably not sitting on as many as they'd like to be!
They certainly don't have enough to sign up every property in their current catchment area, and they're looking at expanding too
